skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a reason why top performers in any industry (CEO's, athletes, actors) have coaches. I can explain to you how to ski all day long, but if I get you on a hill you will learn many times faster.

Coaching works (in programming contexts as well).
> I would be worried about a “this protest isn’t about your situation, white person” response. (Given the current tenor)

A genuine question of my own: what has planted this worry in your mind? What tenor do you speak of? The demographics of the US mean that any policy that POC want to enact has to also be supported by enormous numbers of white people; that POC-friendly policies have ever passed is evidence that working with white people is par for the course.

To attempt to answer your original question, it depends on what you mean by "join".

The simplest answer is to bring it back around to class and recognize the shared fight against intergenerational poverty: support social programs that disproportionately benefit the poor of all races e.g. a livable minimum wage, expanded worker protections, public healthcare, etc.

If what you mean instead is to start a conversation about the unique ways in which poor whites are disadvantaged, well that's fertile ground but it also requires acknowledging that whites and poor whites have schismed into, effectively, entirely different races (they don't intermarry, they don't socialize together, they hold different values, have different cultural touchstones, etc). That's a difficult conversation to have, and you're going to find a lot of resistance from plenty of poor whites who still want to associate their identities with a holistic "whiteness" that they still long to be a part of. But someone has to start the conversation, even if it's uncomfortable, because the alternative is that the powers-that-be continue to wield that longing as an instrument by which to motivate poor whites to vote against the social programs that would benefit them.
As is typical in these discussions, folks are confusing representation with kind.

"type" systems help with representation errors, but those tend to be easy to find without static typing.

One problem with static typing is that I'm forced to address all of the representation issues before I can do any testing. That "premature optimization" is hell on incremental development.

Another problem is that static typing tends to encourage languages which are designed around making type checking easy. That impacts program design.
It's this way for everyone I know, except for medicaid recipients.
Hosting it yourself does not give you any extra features. You still need to pay (the same price) for the premium features. The only benefit to self hosting is you have complete control of your data (which is important to some companies)
They completely - and I mean completely - changed the comment from what I read this morning.

The original quote or calling non-coders “schmoozers” (their words, not mine), are in fact, no longer there as far as I can see.

It wasn’t taken out of context, there was not that much nuance to the sentence I quoted.
> "First with some immediate action, and later they'll craft a new rule to guide social media on stock advice being not allowed on their platforms (IMO)."

What about Section 230?
Look at the type of conversations, not the content. It’s not organic
I think other arguments are

- senior people sharing their practices and knowledge with each other

- senior people collaborating on a solution have shared sense of ownership on the direction they arrive at together, and working in code is more "real" than whiteboarding

- stronger relationships with coworkers, which is harder to come by in a remote setup
> why not go full-oss, instead of retaining control through a restrictive OSS licence?

The main point of copyleft is to pass down freedoms to use/modify/distribute all the way to the end user.

Instead we got locked-down privacy-breaching smartphones, IoT devices, SaaS, where only the manufacturer benefits from OSS.
What you can pick up from a video is a workflow you may not have though of. For example, I don't think beginners have the unix console open logged into the database, while they have another window with the back end code, and then the developer tools open at the same time so they can debug the flow "end to end" unless they are taught to do so.

Sometime they may not think to think: why isn't the data appearing? did that data even get read into the database? Do I have to open the dbase now to see? 5 minutes of watching someone do it can save you years of learning that workflow.
> I think the point is that after it dies frequently it will release all the stored carbon back into the atmosphere

Only if it burns, dead tree are generally eaten away over decades by insects, fungus and birds.
I can't get this to work, because my SSID is the poo emoji. I'm not sure what character encoding QR codes use, and I haven't really bothered trying to debug this.
Perhaps that's not the case organically but it seems that way because the media has been beating that drum relentlessly for the past half decade or so, in the process creating the actual strife they had been magnifying.
> cost-plus is necessary

I wish cost plus worked but its just as easily gamed. Ive seen many industries that contracted cost-plus and the costs magically went up a lot. If there is money to be made the system can always be gamed/contorted/scammed, etc...
The content is different but the intent of the comments are to incite the hive mind.
Ah yes, they may want to chop off my head... but I would never tell them this is wrong.
I'm not going to over analyze this good news.

I'm going to accept that at least one thing in the world seems to have gone right today.
FWIW, I started going this direction and ended up taking one step back and settling on Markdown. The reason was I realized an HTML renderer is still a pretty heavy dependency to consume my content.

The upshot is you can now browse my blog with curl or netcat:

curl https://apitman.com/txt/feed

nc apitman.com 2052 <<< /txt/feed

I may switch to another format in the future. It doesn't matter much as long as it's readable as plain text.
It's both. Ultimately, the Internet has no arbitrator to enforce the rules of argumentation. By the time you're reduced to arguing about the rules, no progress is going to be made.

I consider that primarily a reason to cease engaging entirely. When you believe you're being sea-lioned, you don't really need to call it out. People who do are hoping for some sort of closure, but they aren't going to get it. You may be correct, or you may be merely trying your own dishonest means to win, but either way nothing productive is going to happen.

The best you can do is remind yourself that nobody actually cares. That's really hard to remember when somebody declares: "You've failed to supply the evidence therefore I win by default". Troll tactics rely on you feeling bad about losing in public, and believing that your side has lost adherents. Effectively, they've won before you've even started when you believe that the only way to win is for them to concede that you've supported yours side sufficiently. They will always be able to simply declare that you lost, one way or another.

The only way to avoid that is to not play at all. And the realization of sea-lioning is useful in that. It doesn't win an argument. Rather, it's your self-recognition that you will lose if you say anything else, and it's not worth your time. The sooner you forget about it, the faster you regain equilibrium. Even stopping to declare "No thanks, sea lion" doesn't really help unless you have the ability to shut down replies.

That can also be used badly, to be sure. It can be a troll tactic, and you deal as you would with other trolls. And it can be used to fool yourself; in the absence of an arbitrator you can't really know when you're missing a sincere argument. But I'd advise erring on the side of abandoning any arguments early, since it's never as important as you imagine it is. Even if you've failed to recognize a serious critique, you'll hear it again some day, probably soon. Sincere self reflection, offline, will bring you good answers faster than bashing yourself out against an army of trolls.
For thee, but not for me.
Of course, everybody is doing that.
> Designers don't really know or understand the limits of how you can style a select box. Nor should they need to.

Designers absolutely need to be aware of and work within their platform's constraints, like a painter needs to understand and work with the physical characteristics of their canvas. It's this kind of mentality that results in visual specs that read "Make the window look exactly, to the pixel, like this Photoshop image!"
Sounds like good side business idea. Good engineer could create it over weekend, than sell licenses and do support.
We're hiring engineers and an EM btw ;)

https://journey.buffer.com/#vacancies
I'm guessing that's where it started. It was/is part of the whole lean manufacturing revolution.
While there are certainly issues in the tax code, you’re absolutely just making up the history and intent of the 401k. The 401k was not setup to help big business, quite the opposite. They were setup as an explicit alternative to the pension systems that historically were how employees retired, and pensions absolutely favor large companies that can afford them. 401k programs allow much more employee choice and mobility, which they’ve arguably achieved.
This is so exciting. WebRTC is our best hope to have video interop between platforms. I love that it works outside web browsers, compeitors like WebTransport assume a 100% browser world. Or you have protocols like RTMP/SRT... that will never make it into the browser.

WebRTC might be our best bet to establish P2P connectivity between all languages/platforms. Would love to get rid of the single point of falure in Pub/Sub systems. WebRTC also feels like a great path towards easy cloud-agnostic code. You can use lots of different languages, and not dependent on SDKs/Servers.

* https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc (Python)

* GStreamer’s webrtcbin (C)

* https://github.com/shinyoshiaki/werift-webrtc (Typescript)

* https://github.com/pion/webrtc (Golang)

* https://github.com/webrtc-rs/webrtc (Rust)

* https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webr... (C/Embedded)

* https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src/ (C++)

* https://github.com/rawrtc/rawrtc (C++)

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Then you have a couple that aren't Open Source. But proves it is possible for these platforms also.

* Shiguredo (Erlang)

* |pipe| (Java)

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If you are new to WebRTC I have been working on making it more accessible https://webrtcforthecurious.com. I am currently pretty tied up with Pion so haven't been able to make much progress lately.
You're missing the point. It's like the $10,000 toilet seat covers the US military paid for. I'm not saying they can't afford it. I'm saying it's graft.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-...
No, it is not about one persons code, which was exactly my point.
The user activity I refer to led to exactly that narrative. The user activity created the narrative.
It's a lot longer from zero (or negative, in you have student loans) to a quarter million if you're working outside the SV/software engineer salary bubble.
As a British customer in the EU... same.
How to Manage a Remote Team
It's meaningful in getting future guests/contestants to be willing to appear on the show. If all of the sharks only ever said no, nobody would want to go on the show. They have to at least make the audience think deals are happening to keep an audience. After that, if the deal actually completes or not are not relavent to the producers of the show. They just need to line up the next round of chum to bring out in front of the sharks.
Show HN: Virtual Primary Care for $25, get it funded with your HSA
> Eventually once charging is more universally available

What if Tesla ends up with more or less a monopoly?

> Tesla can simply expand to allow others to charge there and make a lot of money.

But will they?

I agree that it's fair that Tesla gets return on their investment. But if we end up with a situation where infrastructure is disjointed or where it's infeasible for anyone else to launch any competetition then Tesla have gained a market position that might be "fair" to them but unfair to everyone else.
I'm just looking at what Wikipedia says Zuckerberg is worth but it's $69B. Looking at what Forbes said his charity (which does not mean 100% his money) they donated $410 million in 2018. That's ~0.006% of his wealth meaning it's not even giving away a penny out of $100. It's close to half a penny out of $100.

I understand net worth of $69B is on paper but none of these guys are philanthropic.
S-3 Viking I believe.
There was a pretty good thread about insulin on this story when it was posted to Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/l5vv6m/billi...
Chamath Palihapitiya on Wallstreetbets [video]
The M1 MacBook Pro is at the other end of the spectrum from the outdated/underpowered device that requires a lightweight web page. But the user of such a fast machine still benefits from lightweight web pages (faster loading times, less CPU usage, etc).
The US is primarily a materialist individualistic society where good is defined by commercial mimesis and folklore of the particular outweigh that of the common. Expressing concern for “income inequality” signals a virtuous desire for all to attain a nirvana of stuff attained through the magic of money.
What he's saying is that this stuff has benefits even for people using modern, powerful machines like the M1 MacBook Pro.
>> Actually, no. lz4 is less suitable than zstd for filesystems.

>

>Why's that? What benefit would I get from switching? Is it workload-dependent?

Presumably because Zstd has much better compression, while still being quite fast.

I don't see however how that invalidates any of my observations. Some filesystems like e.g. UBIFS support LZ4, but now also support Zstd, because both are suitable for the task (and LZ4 was around earlier).

In the end it is a classic space vs. time trade-off and there is AFAIK no generic right or wrong answer (except that some algorithms are too slow to even be considered).
Since short sellers often provide liquidity to the market, if this happens at a large enough scale, it could push hedge fund shorts out of the market and then we could have a return of liquidity problems like during 2008.

Though some of these short operations do target companies with the intention of taking them over at a bargain, it's fair to say that due to the pandemic and the lockdowns that a short on mall related companies is a reasonable move. I guess WSB is ultimately taking advantage of the lack of updating the short position with the emergence of a vaccine.
I made a post on the C++ subreddit (r/cpp) asking for a mentor. Talked about the project and said I was willing to pay. Some people pointed me towards others (those people were too busy), but one guy reached out and had an online presence I could check out before deciding.

The mods removed my post btw :/ apparently it was against the subreddit rules to ask for help. Found the guy before they could remove my post though, and here I am.
WebRTC is also a decent P2P data protocol, and to have a P2P protocol like that enshrined in IETF standards means that P2P is now considered a "normal" thing on the Internet.

This in turn means that symmetric NAT will be considered sort of broken, which it should be as it is horrible for anything P2P or any novel protocol for that matter. Of course IPv6 is the ultimate long term solution.
I'm not a fan of the stacked bar charts, I like the table of data for "Benchmarks" on the github source page: https://github.com/lz4/lz4

It makes it very clear where LZ4 fits into comparisons with compression speed, decompression speed and compression ratio
Well, a lot of these tasks are already automated (ie, shakers), but most bench workers have their own quirks on existing protocols. Most labs have their own 'dialect' of common mol bio techniques that 'work' in their particular setup. Perhaps the reagent from their particular supplier requires a longer incubation time, or the enzymes are wonky and you need to add more. Everybody I know does washing steps their own way - they say the "official" protocol is too long/cumerbersome/wasteful. More often than not, their own variant of the protocol is documented in their lab books, but not in the publications, where it cites the original protocol.
Memey exuberance is not distinguishable from bots with poor grammar
Isnt he the one who returned a bunch of Covid stimulus money after being called out on not needing it? Perhaps an oversite in his business empire, or perhaps damage control?
This is what we in the Enterprise Software business call inbound marketing. LOL

This pretty much guarantees a phone call from your VP Engineering tag-teaming with the CFO.
> Yes, I would say that legally reducing one's taxes is not immoral

No point in continuing this conversation then.
>Aren't ms kinda dumping the price here. As in selling at loss in order to kill competition.

Um... this has been MS's modus operandi for decades. Remember how you used to have to pay for Netscape Navigator and then MS gave IE away for free?
Mark Cuban must have my conversations bugged. I recently was talking to a friend about how the rich should realign how they do large charity spending.

In previous decades a rich industrialist may have built a library or a university building. This made sense when education was for the rich, and knowledge was inaccessible the wider public. But now knowledge is cheap, and large gifts like this are disconnected from today's average public person. Also putting a name on a hospital that still puts people into debt isn't a good image either.

Now the wider public needs cheaper pharmaceuticals. In order of the rich to stay in power for extended periods, they need to give some amount of handouts. Nuevo rich don't understand this, so they look to predecessors, and look on how they spent their money (hospitals, universities, etc), without realizing why they spent it. Expect to see more charity capitalism aligned with today's needs: generic drugs, taxi services, even phones and internet access.
I too am curious. All of the platform-specific frameworks which do networking+datastore, that I've used, check even fewer boxes. Especially when it comes to reactive UI and optimistic responses.
This isn't the garment industry. Labour costs in drug manufacturing (as opposed to drug development) are negligible.
Gems – A musical by Will Larche (about being a Googler while WFH)
> externalized to your users

You mean if you have customers with less powerful devices like the OP? I don't really see internal services or B2B products having that problem.
It depends on the human, it depends on the process; I guess it will depend on the quality of AI in the future.

I consistently have terrible experiences with by human operators over the phone, e.g. phone company and similar (in my case italy, but I guess it's a general problem). They routinely cannot address my issues and just say they are sorry but they cannot do anything about it, or that this time it will work.

Human operators are a solution only if they are not themselves slaves to an internal rigid automated system
This is very good, I agree with almost everything. I would add the following:

Guile and S7 are great for embedding in C programs. S7 is similar to Guile but permissively licensed.

Gambit and Chicken compile down to C if you want to work that way. Gambit is very fast, Chicken is extremely well documented and beginner friendly.

Clojure has by far the best books out for enterprise development and web dev if you want to build "normal" business apps and like books.
Competitive Programming, the Tech Paradox
Engineering degree != CS or software engineering degree. No idea what the job market looks like for a civil engineer or for some sort of unspecified 'engineer' grad.
hrrmm, any suggestions on personal projects that will make mill-i-ons?

I'm half serious. like how can i make an algorithm that auto trades vwap starting with a $1000 account?

anyone have links for projects in;
building your own receiver.
building a laser.
building a 4 story walk up multi family unit.
building a particle accelerator
programming a kernel from scratch
how to get a super hot mail order Russian bride for free
how to convert your car to hydrogen cell
how to create your own cannabis genetics

i threw some in there to see if you're paying attention, but maybe there should be a thread for cool projects [not just github like].
This raises the question of your "learning workflow".
I tried something similar but found I wasn't learning much and he (it happened to be a guy) was doing all of the work and I was barely engaging with it. We had a shared github account, he would do some work and then explain it to me.

What is your workflow?

(10 hours is a large chunk!)
The Collection of Winsock Software goes offline for good
> least consider the fact that it is proven that poverty is correlated with human trafficking (due to desperation and vulnerability) and illegally high medical bills force people into poverty.

This is pretty tenuous and would implicate a lot of other behaviors. You know what else causes poverty?

- the ability to hire based on skill and lay off people when you don’t need them

- alcohol

- charging for housing

- charging for food

- charging for utilities

- property taxes

- charging for transportation

If, “does something that could cause poverty” is the bar, then a huge chunk of market exchange of goods and services needs to stop.
Why Your Business Should Have a Telegram Strategy
You can shit on billionaires and capitalism all you want but you can't argue with the benefits of trickle down effect of wealth.

Somebody has a big ego and wants to put his name on schools, hospitals? Let him.

Somebody wants to make a profit by exploiting the inefficiencies of an industry? Let him.

Wallstreetbets wants to take out a few hedgefunds by beating them at their own game? Let's go.
What an unrealistic comparison. No landlord would ever do that, nor would the roommate agree to the changes that the landlord would attempt to make even if that is something the landlord would do.
> Good point! I guess it's not different to the equator on the surface of a sphere... so yes, a straight line "encloses" half of the plane "inside" it, so it has a hole.

My topology is rusty, but I do not think that a line in the plane is equivalent to an equator of a sphere because a plane is not equivalent to a sphere in a topological sense, and neither is a line equivalent to a circle. There is no homeomorphism (structure preserving bijective function) between either pairs of spaces.

There is a standard way to augment the plane/line to make it equivalent to a sphere/circle called the "1-point compactification"[1], but since it requires adding an extra point "at infinity", the augmented space is not the same as the original.

So no, a straight line doesn't have a "hole" in the topological sense. The 1-point compactification of it does though.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandroff_extension
No and bots were not driving to the nations capitol on Jan 6, but they sure encouraged people who wouldn’t have picked up keys to start that drive. Same with GME, none of you would have bought it if it hadn’t turned into a meme stock
Antifa writing death threats is unacceptable. No excuses. If the cause supports it then they are more about violence than fixing/improving the world.

Beating up journalists as they report is also unacceptable in a democracy regardless of affiliation.

I'm guessing that antifa didn't condemn these death threats either.
Food allergies: Biotech startup Ukko secures $40M Series B
Right, so the effect must have been from the added factor plus some mystery factor in the serum.
TypeScript dependent types and function bivariance
Oh yeah my bad should be mb
Make no mistake Mark Cuban is a snake if you ever lookup his past business dealings. He made his money by basically pushing out fellow founders at paypal.